Use with Cloudflare

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Use with Cloudflare

vitobotta opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Hi! I am using Cloudflare and the IP address logged is one of Cloudflare's IPs. Is it possible to log the actual IP of the client? In the rest of the app I get it from the CF-Connecting-IP header that Cloudflare sets. Thanks!

Andrew Kane · Answer 1 · Fri Sep 04 2020 04:01:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @vitobotta, check out cloudflare-rails or actionpack-cloudflare, which fix request.remote_ip globally.

Vito Botta · Answer 2 · Fri Sep 04 2020 05:21:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @ankane, thanks for suggesting the gems. I tried cloudflare-rails since the other one is no longer maintained but I couldn't get it to work. I suspect it's because I am using Rails 6.1 already (it's causing me some issues but I have to use it because of the proxy feature in ActiveStorage).

However I solved my issue at the Nginx ingress level with a similar thing. Thanks!